Acceptable email address formats

[dan]

I can’t find any documentation about how FusionAuth verifies email addresses - it feels a bit strict, returning a notEmail error for addresses that my SMTP provider (and inbox) will happily accept, e.g. .name@example.com, name.@example.com, name..surname@example.com.

What's going on?

[dan]

We validate using RFC 5322 which defines the local part as a dot-atom;

“that is, it contains no characters other than atext characters or “.” surrounded by atext characters.

As far as I know the examples given are not valid email addresses. I think the only way you can begin or end an email address with a . is if it is quoted.